I want that one
Absolutely love HMS M1. Slightly impractical but for the memes in Warthunder that 12inch would be hilarious to use.
Surcouf only had 2x8inch guns.
And it would just be a Submarine with 1 scout aircraft. So it would work just like ships.
The one problem is that no matter how many aircraft you have, war thunder works on the concept of ‘if you can’t see the others externally, they don’t exist’.
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For carriers, being able to comtrol flights of planes per attack run, like in the Battlestations games, would be awesome.
Could lead to some epic carrier on carrier battles.
But that’s off topic
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The I-400’s planes could carry either a 800kg bomb or a torpedo. So there is some attack capability
It would just function as deployable scout aircraft. Since it wouldn’t involve aircraft carrier tactics.
Even with torps it’s just a scout aircraft but you drop a torp instead of 1 or 2 small bombs.
Surcouf was actually terrible submarine, it will get same treatment as Maus.
During her entire existence, she never fired a single shot in anger-neither guns nor torpedo tubes. Plagued with problems from the start, she rolled in heavy seas, sometimes far enough to spill acid from her batteries. She was slow to dive (two and a half minutes to 40 feet) and hard to control while submerged, with recurrent hydroplane and rudder problems. The aircraft could only be launched and recovered on the surface in a flat calm, and then it took 30 minutes. The turret leaked.
Im far more interested in sound seeking torpedoes (if we ever see them).
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I’m not sure what you mean by “the same treatment as Maus,” many of the technical and logistical problems of the Maus are glossed over by War Thunder making it the best possible version of the vehicle. Doesn’t that mean that Surcouf would be… good?
It’s only real weakness on paper is its long dive time (which you mentioned), but that’s something that most large submarines, especially of the time period, would deal with.
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Maus is facing vehicles with ATGMs on regular basis. If they add Sorcouf it wont fight vehicles from its time period.
I think what he means is that it would get power crept to the point of uselessness extremely quickly in the way alot of big flashy weapons are power crept in game, such as the maus by atgms, the the SRAAM missile by flares, or just tank destroyers in general.
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And the M41 that was used in the 60’s is set at 6.3. What’s your point?
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Are we also considering midget submarines? Would be so goofy considering how small they are lol
I-56 with Kaiten torpedoes when??
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They would perfectly work. Just like the Cruiser Submarines with scout aircraft you launch on the surface. The mini-subs if they have weapons, would be a scout submarine you only launch below water not above.
Just like scout aircraft, you can keep your submarine somewhere else and launch the submarine to either have maximum an advanced torpedo strike whilst keeping your submarine safe. Or at minimum just scout out ships and submarines in the area.
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I bet this is how they introduce ASDIC and hydro
Honestly. If they introduce Hydrophone Operator vision like the Radar Operator Screen. Showing you the distance from the submarine, with direction, sound and depending on the submarines crew the range at which you detect what vehicle it is.
That would be absolutely amazing.
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In the Silent Thunder event, they had a Sonar mode, kinda comparable to NVD
Only problem with the kind of sonar you’re describing, active sonar, is that it’s really good at giving your position away.
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